Improvement in lounge-beds



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Letters Patent No. 113,012, and Marches, 1871. 1

IMPRovEMEN-r 1N LOUNGE-Bans.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

by declare that thefollowing is a full and exact descriptionof the same.

I employ'a double series of wood springs, serving `the one series or face to receive the action when used as alouuge, andthe other series or face to receive the action when used as a bed.

I also construct and arrange the other details in a novel manner, and my lounge, as a whole, offers ad-l vantages not attainable by any known to me.

I will proceed to describe what I consider the best means for carrying ont my inventioi The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification. l

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the loungebed when adjusted to serve as a lounge.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same when adjusted to serve as a bed.

Similar letters of reference the drawing.

Ai is a fixed frame-work. It supports the whole structuregby four legs, as usual, when adjusted to serve as a lounge.

B B', Sac., isa folding portion, hinged to the part A by hinges'. a.

y The bach, B', forms a portionof the ,folding part,

and may serve as legs tosupport the latter when in the position for use as a bed.

D1 I)z is a douhleseries of springs, of ash, or other suitable wood. The strips are of a hat form, and are arranged in parallel positions, and secured by hooks d on cross-strips D D', Yfixed in the folding part B, as represented.

There is another series, a single series, ofvvcorresponding slats U, mounted in the obvious manner in the base A.

When'thc device is to be used as a lounge the pillow, blankets, &c.', may be, stowed in the,lower portion ofthe base A', beneath'the slats (l.

The series of slats O is lifted out to allow access to the'space below for this purpose.

When the article is in usel as a lounge the lower springs 0 are of no effect, and the lower faceof the double'series Dl D is equally dormant.

The upper face D1 servesalone, and yields with the padded portion or cushion above with, suli'icientelas-- ticity.

When my article 4of furniture is. to be used as a bed the top and back B B. islifted and. turned over u fig. 2,Y and the mattress or mattresses, which are not represented, mayjbe refer 4to like parts in tinuously across from one si brought from any convenient place where they have been previously stowed, and laid upon-the open frame ing.

I propose, in some cases, to increas still further the depth of the loungewhen serving as a lounge, and thus to increase the space between'the springs 'O and the springs D2 when in this condition, so that a pair ofthin mattresses may be stowed in that posi tion and be thusicontained within the structure.

This, however, I "do not esteem essential to the success of the other portions of my invention. I have not considered it necessary to represent .it in the drawing. v

When in use as a hed the mattresses may be in as -many'pieces as may be preferred. One obvious form would beto make the portion for the head separate, like pillows, and capable of lying' independently on the inclined support, which 4I provide therefor'. This support is hinged and unfolds as indicated by llll Ez.

In iig. 1,',the part E2 is seen folded upon the part El, which latter is connected to the part B by hinges e.

In fig. 2 the part E2 is unfolded, turning upon the hinges e', and is supported against the fixed braces A1 fast on the part A.

I support the portion El of the compound headrest El Ez by a turning-brace, M, .which is 'adapted to turn on a pivot, m, in the end ofthe vpart B. It is shown-in tw'o positions. In fig. 1 it is turned up andis idle.

The opening of the lounge-bed by lifting and turning over the part B B necessarily reverses the positions of all these parts, and, until further adj usted, the

brace M, with, of course, the head-supports .El E,

incline downward.

To adj ust the head-supports the part E2 is unfolded l and caused to rest on the braces A A1, and the turn.- ing-brace M is turned around so as to incline upward and properly support the part El.l This will be readily understood 'rom the figures with this explanation.

Lounge-beds, as they are usually' constructed, are.,v

open to the objection thatthey presentahard surface along the edge or-joint, in the line `of the hinges.

I remedy this defect ,byA cutting away the solidpart at` the edge. and lixing there springs G G, indep endent ofthe other series named. They should, by preference, be 'secured by meanswhich will allowof la little play. I prefer stout wood screws, put through slots in the spring, as, represented.

These springs are of4 the 1most consequence when. the mattress sin a single .piece and stretches conde tothe other of the v extended bed. v'.lhe'springs, give an elasticityto the support along l the central line,which Vis 'very desirable and highly important.

I employ ahook or otherI suitable locking means,

indicated by N, at the back, which can be made to hold the folding part B B' very firmly down upon the part A when the article'is adjusted as a lounge.

The padded portion or cushion' which serves as a. seat when in the lounge position, is not used for the bed, and may be upholstered with any degree of richness and elegance. It rests upon the upper portion Dl of the compound series of springs Dl D.

In the condition as a. lounge the face DlL is evailable to make the cushion-or seat elastic; in the condition as a.\bed the face Dz serves asa. spring under the mattress. 4

The cross-bars D are mortised or otherwise firmly secured in the framing in the folding part B.

'I claim as my invention- 1. A. lounge-bed, having three series of springs, one series, D1, serving as the springs for the seat when used as a lounge, and the other two series, Dz C, serving when the structure is used asa. bed, as herein specified. 2. The swivelingsupport M, turning on tne pivot m, and arranged to serve, relatively to the folding head-rest Ex E. and to thel main parts A* A ofthe lounge-bed, as and for the purposes herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: JOHN BRADA.

THOMAS D. STnTsoN, G. G. LrvmGs. 

